Ranga Rao
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199470754
- eISBN:
- 9780199087624
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199470754.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, World Literature
This chapter looks at another of Narayan’s novels, The Bachelor of Arts. The training of the mind of a Narayan hero is properly launched by Chandran in this novel. By the end the struggle yields ...
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This chapter looks at another of Narayan’s novels, The Bachelor of Arts. The training of the mind of a Narayan hero is properly launched by Chandran in this novel. By the end the struggle yields results; Chandran has gone through a self-devised schedule, of self-education. This young man could be a novitiate in a monastery cutting himself off with a will from the world. His self-training is self-launched. He has come a long way, from an assertion of ‘freedom’ to a voluntary control of freedom, even to a determined self-regulation of it. The moral dividend is a spiritual poise, though a balance achieved by youth.Less
This chapter looks at another of Narayan’s novels, The Bachelor of Arts. The training of the mind of a Narayan hero is properly launched by Chandran in this novel. By the end the struggle yields results; Chandran has gone through a self-devised schedule, of self-education. This young man could be a novitiate in a monastery cutting himself off with a will from the world. His self-training is self-launched. He has come a long way, from an assertion of ‘freedom’ to a voluntary control of freedom, even to a determined self-regulation of it. The moral dividend is a spiritual poise, though a balance achieved by youth.
